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Greenpeace urges governments to speed up climate negotiations
Monday, September 01, 2008
As the latest round of UN climate talks came to a close today, Greenpeace urged governments to pick up the pace of the negotiations which, in just over a year, must deliver a global deal to save the climate. The meeting, in Accra, Ghana, showed some progress but still lacked the urgency required to meet the 2009 target. "Too much time is being wasted arguing about procedural details and restating historical positions and not enough real substance is being put on the table,"said Bill Hare, Director of Climate Policy at Greenpeace International. "This is the third round of talks since the two-year process was launched in Bali last year, and by now the deal that will be agreed at the end of 2009 should be taking shape." Governments will meet again in Poznan, Poland in December, to continue negotiations. Marking the halfway point between the meeting held in Bali in 2007, and the meeting to be held in Copenhagen in 2009, Poznan should therefore provide a clear milestone for paving the way towards the 2009 Agreement. "Already, expectations of progress at Poznan are being lowered by some governments, who would prefer to leave everything to the last minute with the excuse that 'this is the nature of international negotiations'," Hare observed. "The fact is, we are already in extraordinary times and we require extraordinary measures now. These talks must move forward rapidly to give the world a chance of avoiding climate catastrophe." |
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